Robert Frost Quotes


Robert Frost

The best way out is always through.

The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow.

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

I`m against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise.

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

I never dared to be radical when young For fear it would make me conservative when old.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel.

In three words I can sum up everything I`ve learned about life: it goes on.

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

It`s a funny thing that when a man hasn`t anything on earth to worry about, he goes off and gets married.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman`s birthday but never remembers her age.

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

We dance round in a ring and suppose, While the secret sits in the middle and knows

We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint.

A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity.

College is a refuge from hasty judgment.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I`ll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman`s birthday but never remembers her age.

Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.

Style is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward

To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.

Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.

Nothing Gold Can Stay

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

There is nothing as mysterious as something clearly seen

Oh I kept the first for another day

Writing a poem is discovering

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

I`m not confused, I`m just well mixed

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference

I`d just as soon play tennis with the net down.

A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

In three words I can sum up everything I`ve learned about life: it goes on.